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Hitler's death camps : the sanity of madness / by Feig, Konnilyn G.(CARDINAL)157485;
Bibliography: pages 506-531.A beginning. A beginning ; A confrontation with Hell ; Hitler : a creation of true faith ; The Nazi structure ; The Jews must die ; The Final Solution ; The Solution expands ; Invasion : the Einsatzgruppen ; The ghetto reservations ; The camps : a summary -- The camps. The pre-war camps ; Dachau : a perfect model ; Sachsenhausen/Oranienburg : the semi-circle of brutality ; Buchenwald : a mountain of culture, politics, and corruption ; Mauthausen : extermination by labor in Austria ; Flossenbürg : a mountain stronghold ; Women and the Third Reich ; The Polish camps ; The German camps ; The Czechoslovakian center ; The killing centers : exclusive function camps ; The labor/extermination complexes ; Liberation ; Poland -- The indifferent, the slaughterers, the strugglers. A few questions ; The indifferent ; The slaughterers ; The strugglers ; The madness of the Holocaust ; Lessons the Holocaust taught us -- Appendix. Camp directions ; The camps and commandants ; The fate of the commandants."Focuses on the major Nazi concentration camps as defined by Heinrich Himmler; the concentration system as it evolved; the actions, reactions, and feelings of the different groups of people involved in it; and the many phases of the process of dehumanization, destruction and death"--Preface.1160L
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Internment camps.; Nazi concentration camps.; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Fighting Auschwitz : the resistance movement in the concentration camp / by Garliński, Józef,author.(CARDINAL)509531;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.The story of underground resistance among the prisoners at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp.
Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp); World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The boy on the wooden box : how the impossible became possible... on Schindler's list / by Leyson, Leon,1929-2013,author.(CARDINAL)404266; Harran, Marilyn J.,1948-author.(CARDINAL)730754; Lewson, Elisabeth B.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (page 232).Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to the Krakow ghetto. With incredible luck, perseverance, and grit, Leyson was able to survive the sadism of the Nazis, including that of the demonic Amon Goeth, commandant of Plaszow, the concentration camp outside Krakow. Ultimately, it was the generosity and cunning of one man, a man named Oskar Schindler, who saved Leon Leyson's life, and the lives of his mother, his father, and two of his four siblings, by adding their names to his list of workers in his factory -- a list that became world renowned: Schindler's List.The biography of Leon Leyson, the only memoir published by a former Schindler's List child.1000LAccelerated Reader ARAccelerated ReaderReading Counts!ALSC Notable Children's Book, 2014.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Young adult literature.; Leyson, Leon, 1929-2013.; Schindler, Oskar, 1908-1974.; Płaszów (Concentration camp); Jews; Jewish children in the Holocaust; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945; Internment camp inmates; Nazi concentration camp inmates; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 40 / Total copies: 43
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When the emperor was divine : a novel / by Otsuka, Julie,1962-author.(CARDINAL)668497;
Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any previously written--a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our times.810LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Japanese Americans; World War, 1939-1945; Japanese American families; Internment camps; Nazi concentration camps;
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 14
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Ten escape from Tojo / by McCoy, Melvyn H.(Melvyn Harvey),1907-1988.(CARDINAL)876671; Mellnik, Stephen M.(Stephen Michael),1907-1994.(CARDINAL)201012; Kelley, Welbourn,1909-1991.;
Subjects: Personal narratives.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Internment camps; Nazi concentration camps; Old State Library Collection.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cilka's journey [sound recording] / by Morris, Heather(Screenwriter)author(CARDINAL)677873; Brealey, Louisenarrator; Macmillan Audio (Firm).(CARDINAL)344799;
Read by Louise Brealey.Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, in 1942. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival. After liberation, Cilka is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to Siberia. But what choice did she have? And where did the lines of morality lie for Cilka, who was sent to Auschwitz when still a child? In a Siberian prison camp, Cilka faces challenges both new and familiar, including the unwanted attention of the guards. But when she makes an impression on a woman doctor, Cilka is taken under her wing. Cilka begins to tend to the ill in the camp, struggling to care for them under brutal conditions. And when she nurses a man called Ivan, Cilka finds that despite everything that has happened to her, there is room in her heart for love.Compact discs.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Audiobooks.; Cilka; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Birkenau (Concentration camp); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945; Women prisoners; Siberia (Russia); Ex-concentration camp inmates;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 11
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Nazis on the run : how Hitler's henchmen fled justice / by Steinacher, Gerald.(CARDINAL)539320;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-364) and indexes.The Nazi escape route through Italy. Italy as a country of refuge ; Refugees, prisoners of war, and war criminals ; Illegal immigrants ; Smuggling goods and people ; South Tyrol, the Nazi bolt-hole ; Fake papers -- The co-responsibility of the international Red Cross. Red Cross travel documents ; How the ICRC issued travel documents in Italy ; The routine nature of false documentation ; The Red Cross calls a halt ; The Red Cross on the escape route ; Escaping with ethnic German identity -- The Vatican network. The Vatican relief commission ; The national subcommittees ; The network of Bishop Alois Hudal ; The monsignor and the Croatian fascists ; The role of the Church in South Tyrol ; Denazification through baptism -- The intelligence service ratline. Operation Bernhard ; The special case of Italy ; "Recycled" war criminals ; The origins of the Italian ratline ; The ratline players ; Escape along the ratline -- Destination Argentina. Argentinian immigration policy ; The recruitment of specialists ; Argentinian diplomats and agents in Italy ; Perón's escape agents in Italy ; Austrian pioneers in the escape network ; The escape of the concentration camp commandants ; A new start in Argentina -- Conclusion.Steinacher not only reveals how Nazi war criminals escaped from justice at the end of the Second World War, fleeing through the Tyrolean Alps to Italian seaports, but he also highlights the key roles played by the Red Cross, the Vatican, and the Secret Services of the major powers. --from publisher description
Subjects: Fugitives from justice; Fugitives from justice; National socialism.; Nazis; War criminals; War criminals; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 8
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Cilka's journey : a novel / by Morris, Heather(Screenwriter),author.(CARDINAL)677873;
Her beauty saved her life and condemned her. Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, in 1942. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival. After liberation, Cilka is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to Siberia. But what choice did she have? And where did the lines of morality lie for Cilka, who was sent to Auschwitz when still a child? In a Siberian prison camp, Cilka faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, including the unwanted attention of the guards. But when she makes an impression on a woman doctor, Cilka is taken under her wing. Cilka begins to tend to the ill in the camp, struggling to care for them under brutal conditions. Cilka finds endless resources within herself as she daily confronts death and faces terror. And when she nurses a man called Ivan, Cilka finds that despite everything that has happened to her, there is room in her heart for love.--Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Historical fiction.; Birkenau (Concentration camp); Ex-internment camp inmates; Ex-Nazi concentration camp inmates; Women prisoners;
Available copies: 19 / Total copies: 21
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The men with the pink triangle : the true, life- and death story of homosexuals in the Nazi death camps / by Heger, Heinz.(CARDINAL)520340;
Imprisoned as a "degenerate" -- Arrival at Sachsenhausen -- A camp of torture and toil -- Flossenbürg -- The Polish boys and the Gypsy Capo -- Commander "Dustbag" -- Burnings and tortures -- A pink-triangled Capo -- A "cure" for homosexuality, and air raids -- The end, and home again.1240L
Subjects: Biographies.; Gay men; Male homosexuality; Internment camps; Nazi concentration camps; Gay men.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The trial [videorecording] : Escape from Sobibor / by Arkin, Alan.(CARDINAL)348089; Gold, Jack; 1930-; Hauer, Rutger; 1944-; Kafka, Franz; 1883-1924.; Martinelli, Elsa; 1935-; Moreau, Jeanne; 1928-.; Perkins, Anthony; 1932-1992.; Rashke, Richard l; 1944-; Salkind, Alexander; 1922-1997.; Schneider, Romy; 1938-1982.; Welles, Orson,; 1915-1985.;
The trial: A man wakens one morning to find that he has been arrested for an unknown offense, and must look beyond the judicial system to prove his innocence. Escape from Sobibor: After an escape from the Treblinka, the Nazi commandant threatens the lives of the prisoners at Sobibor in case of an escape attempt, but since the prisoners know that they are only awaiting their executions, they plan a mass escape. A thriller based on a true story.Digital video disc.System requirements: DVD.
Subjects: Sobibor (Concentration camp).; Escapes; Historical films.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Malicious accusation;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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